Education NGOs

Important NGOs in the field of education

• Education Without Borders
• Say Yes to Education
• Civicus
• Canadian Human Rights Foundation
• Barnard van Leer Foundation
• BRAC
• Aga Khan Foundation
• Open Society Institute
• Agency for the Development of Women and Children (ADWAC)
• Association of Farmers, Education, and Traders (AFET)
• Youth for Understanding

Active intergovernmental institutions that work in education

• World Bank (WB)
• Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
• World Trade Organization (WTO)
• United Nations (UN)
• Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

Environmental education

• Naturalism and Deep Ecology
• Humanism and Sustainability
• Indigenous Cultures
  • Culture and Traditional Knowledge of Biosphere
  • Spiritualism
• Ecotourism
• Speciesism

Human rights education

Human rights NGOs, the largest group of NGOs in global civil society.

It teaches about:

• cultural differences, attempting to seek common ground for working for human rights
• human rights as the morality of a global civil society
• rights based approach to adequate nutrition, shelter, health care, and employment

Globalization and education

Many scholars argue that globalization, consisting of increased movement of people and goods across international borders, is contributing to the weakening of the nation-state because of the emergence of global regulatory organizations, global mass media, and the aforementioned global flow of populations.

Historical background

[edit]Philosophy and education

Philosophy is both the product of, and basis for, the educational ideologies that shape members of our society. Furthermore, the language utilized to describe the actors within society is key to understanding the outcomes of differing educational ideologies. Jean Jacques Rousseau is one of the philosophers who recognized the organizational utility of language in shaping nation-states.

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Information taken  by Wikipedia.org

Reflection of the Holidays

During the holidays, we made a movie which's genre in Action, Adventure, Comedy, and Sports.
In the movie there, are 4 Heroes and 1 Villain who's powers are the most extreme. The Villain is more powerful than all the Heroes. I am the main Hero.

I also did all my Home Work so I was free most of the time. My Home Work was quite easy so I didn't have to take anybody's help.

I also watched a lot of movies: Dabangg 2, Khiladi 786, The Hobbit, Student of the Year, All of Doraemon's movies, Bend it like Bekham, The Spy Next Door, Horrid Henry: The Movie, Race, The Suite Life Movie, Talaash, Ghost Rider 2 : Spirit of Vengance, and Honey I Shrunk our kids.

For Entertainment, I played some games online and their names are Dragon City, The Sims, The Sims 2, The Sims 3, The Sims Social, The Sims Free Play.



 

U.S.A Presidential Elections 2012

The Election of 2012 was the 57th quadrennial presidential election and took place on Tuesday 6th November 2012.  The democratic nominee,president Barack Obama and his running mate vice president Joe Biden,were elected to a second term. Their major challenges were the Republican nominee and the former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and his running mate, Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin.

The following were the candidates:

Barack Obama
Mitt Romney
Ron Paul
Newt Gingrich
Rick Santorum
Buddy Roemer
Rick Perry
Jon Huntsman
Michele Bachmann
Gary Johnson
Herman Cain
Thaddeus McCotter
Tim Pawlenty
Jill Stein
Virgil Goode
Rocky Anderson

The election of 2012 was the first in U.S history in which both major party candidates received more than 60    million votes. It also marks the first time since 1820 that three consecutive American presidents have achieved reelection, as well as the first time since 1944 and Franklin D. Roosevelt's last re-election that a Democratic presidential candidate has succeeded in winning a majority of the popular vote in two consecutive elections.

Reflection

On Saturday,I watched

A movie called ' EK THA TIGER '

on my Micromax Funbook tablet.

The cast is :

Salman Khan

Katrina Kaif

Ranvir Shorey

It is all about India having

a war with Pakistan.

An Indian agent , Tiger/Avinash 

singh rathore (Salman Khan)

falls in love with a pakistani

agent, Zoya (Katrina Kaif).

Then, they escape and run away

and then nobody could ever find 

them or tell if they were Tiger and

Zoya.

  

A day in Silsbee

One day I went to Silsbee for a field trip. Over there, I saw many things for example buildings, shops, a bridge, a dam, a hospital, and I even saw David Villa's villa and many more.

First, I went to my house in the village. It changed alot since from when I last saw it. But, when I went to my house not one single thing moved from its place.

After that, we left the village and entered the city. In the city we went to a restaurant called Relish . The food was very scrumptious.

Next, we went to a mall named after its owner. Its name was '' The Kapoor mall ''. I bought a pair of Converse All Star shoes and a few pairs of clothes.

Then, we went to the river Thames to do fishing,I caught 9 fish. I also saw the Melbourne bridge. It is very big, almost the size of 3 Brachiosauruses.

Later, we went on the on the other side of the river. There, we saw the villa of David Villa. And that is how our day in Silsbee ended.

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The best school in the world

I feel my school is the most wonderful school in the world.I feel that because it provides everything that other schools don't. I thank His highness for making our school.

In our school, we follow the IB PYP curriculum. We have many subjects like Language,Maths,P.E ( Physical Education ),Hindi, and UOI ( Unit of Inquiry ). In UOI, we have 6 units every year and with them, we have TD (Trans-disiplanry) skills. For example, if our unit is on Simple machines, our skill would be 'How the world works'. This year, our teacher is Mrs. Archana. She is an excellent teacher.

The Aga Khan Academy has a beautiful campus. It's spread over a hundred acres land.  It is located near the Shamshabad airport. In our school, you'll see a lot of green trees. We also have a Gymnasium,residences for students and teachers,and many playgrounds, for example: Football,Cricket,Hockey,Tennis, and we also 2 swimming pools.

Reflection of the Re-energising break

HOLIDAYS !!!

 

 

 

Our holidays started on the 9th of September and ended on the 7th of October.In the holidays, I went to a place near Nagpur called Chichgarh. It is actually a village. My house is in the middle of it.I also went to a district called Gondia. There, I went to a restraunt called Spice.